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MEF18 Proof of Concept, 29 – 31 Oct – Blockchain-Based Carrier Marketplace for LSO Sonata. PoC Participants: Colt Technology Services & Zeetta Networks. Speaker: Joan A. Garcia Espín, Director of Product Management, Zeetta Networks. Today, carriers have to build formal agreements with every off-net provider with which they want to do business. This limits the […]
MEF18 Proof of Concept, 29 – 31 Oct – Fulfillment and Activation of an Intercontinental MEF 3.0 Service Spanning Four Operators. PoC Participants: Tata Communications, Sparkle, Equinix, Liquid Telecom, ECI, Amartus, and Spirent. This PoC won the MEF 3.0 Implementation Project 2018 Award in 2018. Speaker: Vova Kamenker, Technical Presales Engineer, ECI. The main goal […]
Internet Exchange Australia (IX Australia) has deployed Smartoptics’ DCP-M40 Open Line System and Pluggable DWDM QSFP28 PAM4 transceivers to provide high capacity links to metro locations in Sydney. The new, automated, network was delivered by Independent Data Solutions (IDS) and provides IX Australia with lowest cost 40 x 100 Gb/s traffic capability over a single […]
Telia activated Sweden’s first 5G network on the campus of KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. The 5G network will serve as an innovation and research platform for the academia and partner companies. Telia is using a test spectrum license. Ericsson is the technology provider. Börje Ekholm, President and CEO, Ericsson, says: “This is […]
CyrusOne has acquired land from Schiphol Area Development Company N.V., just outside Amsterdam, on which it will build a new data center campus. CyrusOne will develop up to 360,000 square ft with an estimated 72 MW of power capacity on the site. This is the second major expansion announcement for CyrusOne in the Netherlands. In […]
LeanIX, a start-up based in Bonn, Germany, closed $30 million in Series C funding. LeanIX offers a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application for Enterprise Architecture (EA), which enables organizations to make faster, data-driven decisions. The funding round was led by Insight Venture Partners. Previous investors DTCP (Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners), Capnamic Ventures, and Iris Capital also participated […]
Guru Parulkar, Executive Director of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), provides an overview of this week’s operator-led conference in Silicon Valley, which featured presentations from ONF’s operator leadership: AT&T, China Mobile, China Unicom, Comcast, Google, Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, NTT Group, and Turk Telekom. A major accomplishment for 2018 was ONF’s release of its initial set […]
It’s a really exciting time at AT&T not only because of the upcoming 5G launch later this month but also because of the many other areas of innovation underway in the network, said Andre Fuetsch, CTO of AT&T and President of AT&T Labs, in a keynote address at the ONF Connect conference in Santa Clara, […]
Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer and deputy chairwoman of Huawei, was arrested in Vancouver, Canada on December 1st at the request of the U.S. government, which is seeking her extradition, according to multiple news sources. U.S. authorities reportedly are investigating violations of economic sanctions on Iran. Meng Wanzhou (Sabrina Weng) is the daughter of […]
BT removed Huawei gear from core network functions following its acquisition of EE three years ago, according to The Financial Times. The report says BT will also avoid the use of Huawei gear in its 5G core although it may use other infrastructure products from Huawei. This follows warnings from British intelligence agencies that Huawei […]
ADVA introduced a compact cell site gateway device for providing Carrier Ethernet and IP service demarcation for small cells deployed outdoors in locations such as walls or lampposts. The ADVA FSP 150-GO102Pro, which is billed as the world’s smallest cell site gateway device, delivers precise time and frequency synchronization. It features automated testing and in-service […]
MEF18 Proof of Concept, 29 – 31 Oct – Multi-Domain, Application-Defined Interconnection Orchestration. PoC Participants: AT&T, Equinix, and Ciena. This group won the prestigious MEF18 PoC Gold Award. Speakers: Marco Naveda, Principal Architect, Office of the CTO, Ciena and Oleg Berzin, Senior Director, Technology Innovation, Equinix. Software Defined Interconnection Exchanges enable public/private peering using secure […]
MEF18 Proof of Concept, 29 – 31 Oct – Pocket-sized, Model-driven Networks. PoC Participants: Vodafone, Ciena, and DGIT Systems. Speakers: Greg Tilton, CEO, DGIT Systems; Chris Lowman, Innovation & Architecture Team, Vodafone and Sam Torrente, IT Operations Transformation, Ciena. This PoC uses LSO Legato and LSO Sonata APIs — augmented by some additional, extended APIs […]
